Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities
Community-engaged research needs involving community organisations as partners in research. Often, however, considerations regarding developing a meaningful partnership with community organisations are not highlighted. Researchers need to identify the most appropriate organisation with which to enga...
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| author | Tanvir Chowdhury Turin Nashit Chowdhury Nahid Rumana Mohammad A A Lasker Mahdi Qasqas |
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| description | Community-engaged research needs involving community organisations as partners in research. Often, however, considerations regarding developing a meaningful partnership with community organisations are not highlighted. Researchers need to identify the most appropriate organisation with which to engage and their capacity to be involved. Researchers tend to involve organisations based on their connection to potential participants, which relationship often ends after achieving this objective. Further, the partner organisation may not have the capacity to contribute meaningfully to the research process. As such, it is the researchers’ responsibility to build capacity within their partner organisations to encourage more sustainable and meaningful community-engaged research. Organisations pertinent to immigrant/ethnic-minority communities fall into three sectors: public, private and non-profit. While public and private sectors play an important role in addressing issues among immigrant/ethnic-minority communities, their contribution as research partners may be limited. Involving the non-profit sector, which tends to be more accessible and utilitarian and includes both grassroots associations (GAs) and immigrant service providing organisations (ISPOs), is more likely to result in mutually beneficial research partnerships and enhanced community engagement. GAs tend to be deeply rooted within, and thus are often truly representative of, the community. As they may not fully understand their importance from a researcher’s perspective, nor have time for research, capacity-building activities are required to address these limitations. Additionally, ISPOs may have a different understanding of research and research priorities. Understanding the difference in perspectives and needs of these organisations, building trust and creating capacity building opportunities are important steps for researchers to consider towards building durable partnerships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-046a4568003b42cead2246cd910964c32023-09-30T14:15:07ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Global Health2059-79082022-03-017310.1136/bmjgh-2021-008201Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communitiesTanvir Chowdhury Turin0Nashit Chowdhury1Nahid Rumana2Mohammad A A Lasker3Mahdi Qasqas4Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada4 Sleep Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada3 Community Based Citizen Researcher, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaCommunity Scholar and Citizen Researcher, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaCommunity-engaged research needs involving community organisations as partners in research. Often, however, considerations regarding developing a meaningful partnership with community organisations are not highlighted. Researchers need to identify the most appropriate organisation with which to engage and their capacity to be involved. Researchers tend to involve organisations based on their connection to potential participants, which relationship often ends after achieving this objective. Further, the partner organisation may not have the capacity to contribute meaningfully to the research process. As such, it is the researchers’ responsibility to build capacity within their partner organisations to encourage more sustainable and meaningful community-engaged research. Organisations pertinent to immigrant/ethnic-minority communities fall into three sectors: public, private and non-profit. While public and private sectors play an important role in addressing issues among immigrant/ethnic-minority communities, their contribution as research partners may be limited. Involving the non-profit sector, which tends to be more accessible and utilitarian and includes both grassroots associations (GAs) and immigrant service providing organisations (ISPOs), is more likely to result in mutually beneficial research partnerships and enhanced community engagement. GAs tend to be deeply rooted within, and thus are often truly representative of, the community. As they may not fully understand their importance from a researcher’s perspective, nor have time for research, capacity-building activities are required to address these limitations. Additionally, ISPOs may have a different understanding of research and research priorities. Understanding the difference in perspectives and needs of these organisations, building trust and creating capacity building opportunities are important steps for researchers to consider towards building durable partnerships.https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/e008201.full |
| spellingShingle | Tanvir Chowdhury Turin Nashit Chowdhury Nahid Rumana Mohammad A A Lasker Mahdi Qasqas Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities BMJ Global Health |
| title | Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities |
| title_full | Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities |
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| title_short | Partnering with organisations beyond academia through strategic collaboration for research and mobilisation in immigrant/ethnic-minority communities |
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